amanda ⭐️

After about a year, I like bluesky a surprising amount for how little I contribute or engage. It’s bizarrely healthy to only check an app when I’m bored, instead of as mindless habit or for a little dopamine from a like or repost.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

Lady Gaga looking like a Romulan high commander

She looks like she's planning to kidnap Geordi La Forge en route to Risa and manchurian candidate him to kill the Klingon governor

Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

An old fashioned paper mailer advertising money in exchange for plasma donations.

uhhhh… how are our other lagging economic indicators doing right now?

meme of buckaroo julia louis-dreyfus laughing nervously sayin 'what the fuck?' and text above says 'chuck tingle checking the news for something topical to write a current events tingler about in 2025'

literally me

A pale, white haired, white bearded man, wearing a pale suit with a black tie, a scene from the second Matrix movie, with the Architect doing an exposition dump to Keanu Reeves Neo

Me, explaining yet again that the idea of 'Economic Collapse' is a misnomer for a cycle of wealth consolidation that is actually the current system functioning as it's organized to do

Love to see my not so local comic book store represent ✨

evergreen intersection of social psychology and politics

Will the Diamond Bankruptcy Change the Comics Business Forever? Publishers and comics shops continue to scramble to shift to other distributors and brace themselves for lost income following Diamond Comic Distributors’ Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in January. Mean...

Me trying to sum up the last few weeks of Diamond chaos at #PublishersWeekly:

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

“It’s been a weird couple of days” -me every couple of days

The trip begins for Abby on this double-page spread...

This was my idea, not in the script. How could I change YOUR perception of the reading experience? This was my solution, designing the spread so you'd 'tip' the page accordingly as you read, orchestrating the positioning of balloons...

two paperback books with contrasting color schemes Green book on top is “1522: rediscovering the history of the Philippines” by Judy Robinson Red book on bottom is Marvel Comics “House of X Powers of X” by Hickman (with Larraz, Silva, and Gracia on art, Cowles lettering, Muller design)

newest layer of my “to read” pile features HOX/POX and some non-fiction about pre-colonial Philippines

If it’s not aliens, then why does the government keep acting exactly like they’re covering up for aliens?!?!?

(please let it be aliens)

If any non-Americans want to know what to read to understand American health insurance industry and how our healthcare system works, Kafka’s The Trial isn’t a bad starting place.

crucial, need to know information 👏🏻

Dune has the same plot as the Westminster Dog Show: After generations of careful breeding, we have produced this perfect little freak of nature and now it has behavioral issues

— 1968
Dawn
War
Rise, Kingdom, Escape
Beneath, Conquest
Gladiator 2 🙃
Battle
— 2001

Gladiator 2 is the worst movie in the Gladiator series but only the 3rd worst Planet of the Apes movie

a still of Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci from Home Alone. the poster spent about forty seconds drawing a gambit costume over stern and giving pesci wolverine claws, sideburns, and hair. They're the best live action wolverine and gambit you could hope to see.

Alex + Ada Issue 1 on a black table top, sitting underneath a vase of pink roses and flowers. The photo is taken from above so the flowers are sharply focused on the foreground and the comics are slightly blurry in the backgrounds.

I owned copies of Alex + Ada (Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn) because the simple visual grammar and adult storyline (sci-fi + romance) make it an easy starting place for adults who feel like they don’t know ::how:: to read comics. Again, I never loaned this series out so it’s been deposited at my LCS

Until December 2nd, I'm hosting a "Black Friday" sale on SKTCHD, with all plans being 50% off for new/returning subscribers when you use the code "BlackFriday2024" on check out.

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Love this cover

“Also, if digital copies are considered to be in print, nothing will ever go out of print, as long as there are computers”

🔥 this is fine 🔥

Just an FYI and a reminder. Alt Text isn't like a caption. It is for visually impaired people. A "screen reader" reads the alt text to them, so it should be descriptive text.

If it's a verbal meme, you should enter the text of the meme. If it's a visual joke, you should explain the joke.

I made my first Starter Pack, and as you should expect, it is very Black.
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